Winter working. 12-2014

Hi Peeps! It's been a while again but im hopefully back to post more regularly now as we approach the business end of the rebuild, I've just moved house and have been in and out of broadband availability.

Well, since my last post attention has been paid to the braking and clutch hydraulic systems, together with the engine disassembly.

A significant amount of copper piping was purchased and this has been flared using a brake flaring kit.
The copper piping has been channelled through the Gearbox tunnel to the front of the car whilst two large runs of piping have been used along the length of the rear axle and joined at various points by swaged and plastic coated aeroquip hosing.
A new Brake compensator was added to the axle bracket and brake slave cylinders (New) were purchased to install within the rear hubs. Still to refurbish is the metal adjuster bar that runs along the axle to the compensator also.

First piping run to the Brake switch

I have also begun dismantling the engine, starting with removing the starter motor, the engine mountings that were still attached to the block, the distributor, the carburettor etc. at this time the rockers, the timing cover and the inlet manifold are all that are in place on the block Looking at the rockers under the covers these appear to be in brilliant condition, showing the cars low mileage and potential engine rebuild that may have occurred whilst the last modifications were being done to the car.

So far the brake lines are now in place, together with the clutch lines in, I have with my father begun measuring out the fuel line piping to also be mounted through the gearbox tunnel in the chassis.

I will upload the pictures shortly, however in the absense of the direct connecting cable from the laptop to the phone, the email isnt coming through with the pictures on. (Typical!).

More updates shortly.